Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-05

Arbor day is now observed in twenty States. It is useful institution.
 The San Francisco Call thinks second term would add nothing to MT. Cleveland's fame. Perhaps not, but it is evident that MT. Cleveland means to run the risk of not having any more fame if he is allowed to by grateful country.
 It is going the rounds that telephone girl in Kansas won rich merchant for 8 husband because he was eaptivated by her sweet voice. Probably she hadn't been long enough in the business to have her voice and her disposition soured.
 In the case against the New England firm charged, with importing velvet workers under contract a witness, in describing the nature of the work, incidentally said that for every one hundred yards of velveteen woman cuts and finishes she walks, by actual measure ment, one hundred and nineteen miles.
 Newspapers in St. Albans, Vermont, and in Lowell, Massachusetts, are complaining of the nuisance of scattering handbills and other advertising papers in the streets. It is nuisance in all cities, and is 8 waste of money by those who pay to have it done. There are few poorer methods of advertis- ing.
 Tomorrow the Court of Claims will begin to try French spoliation claims. Only about four weeks will be devoted to this business, as the court adjourns for the summer on June 6. The number of cases ready for trial R.,Hk 4 sented, aggregating total of losses of ESQ., 900, 900. But many of these claims do not belong to the list of losses by French cruisers. Nor are they supported by sufi- cient proofs. Over eighty years have elapsed since the losses occurred under which the true French claims are made.
 At the Colonial conference lately assem- bled in London some striking facts were put forward by Mir. Fender, chairman of the Eastern Telegraph company, as to the debt which commerce owes to science. Twenty years ago there were scarcely 2,000 miles of submarine cables; now there are 107,OOo miles, of which all but 1000 are under British control (the total cost being $1S5,- | O00,000; and "cables can at the present time be laid with comparatively little risk of breakage, and with an almost certainty of efficient repair" The total land lines are estimated at ], ,75O, 900 miles, costing s260,- 100000.
 A gentleman interested in the commerce of the great lakes says that it is going rapid l ly to large hulls. Twenty years ago pro- peller that could carry fifty thousand bushels of grain or one thousand tons of coal was considered monster, but there are many now in the trade between Buffalo and Chica- go and Cleveland and Duluth that carry over 1 one hundred thousand bushels of grain in a single cargo. The Onoko, one of the great 1 iron propellers, takes one hundred and twen- l ty thousand bushels of oats in a single cargo. | These large vessels are fast crowding the smaller propellers and sailing vessels off of | the lakes.
 The Galveston News puts the case against | prohibition strongly when it says that the I State of Texas receives $550, 900 per annun from liquor dealers; the counties $275, ,O00 counties from the license tax alone. "This is nearly a million dollars which the liquor traffic pays for the support of State and municipal government every year in the way | of license tax, to say nothing of the taa
 which it pays on property" On this ths | News argues that from financial and eco
 homie point of view, prohibition seems te
 threaten greater injury to the public schools and promise greater benefit to nonresident